JOB SUMMARY

The Planning Inspectorate is at the centre of the governments mission to “get Britain building again”. To achieve this we are recruiting for four Senior Developers and a Senior Content Management Systems (CMS) Developer to join our growing Digital Services team as we expand to meet growing demands from our colleagues, government, and our customers.
You will be a member of a multidisciplinary team, writing code and providing technical expertise as part of our digital service teams. This will involve potentially working across multiple products including our casework management system, public facing websites and internal tools, as well as supporting our ongoing digital transformation work to create a more modern Inspectorate.
You will work with a smart and talented group of user researchers, product managers, DevOps engineers, testers, business analysts and delivery managers to deliver better public services for communities.
You will be joining a team of around 30 highly skilled software engineers, testers, and DevOps engineers, providing mentoring and guidance as well as setting the standard for technical excellence.

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will be responsible for working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, focussed on delivering high quality code in line with project goals and delivery cycles. As well as this you will be setting the standards for technical excellence within a team of Developers and fostering an environment where team members are supported and can come to you for guidance and feedback.
As a senior member of the team, you will provide technical direction within the team to identify the best technology, solutions and industry standard Agile methodologies and embed and enhance practices such as Test- Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.
You will also keep up to date with the latest technologies and trends, whilst delivering working software early and often, learning new languages and frameworks and picking the right solutions.
Our Tools
We use high-performance developer machines, AI coding assistance, and JetBrains WebStorm IDE. This combination, alongside a collaborative working culture, allows us to be very effective and deliver excellent results for the business.
Our Tech Stack

We rely on:

• NodeJS for our digital transformation work.
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript for both digital transformation and other services.
• Azure for our infrastructure and deployment.
• Azure SQL for data storage.
• Docker and Azure App Services to host our digital transformation services.
• GOV.UK Design System for our web interfaces.
• Drupal for CMS capabilities

We’re happy to help you learn the specifics of our tech stack once you are part of our team.
Check out GitHub (Planning-Inspectorate) for a closer look at the technology we use.

A typical week in this role will consist of a blend of responsibilities, including:

• Performing code review.
• Providing mentoring and coaching to other team members.
• Prioritising work in line with deliverables and project goals.
• Writing code.
• Writing unit tests.
• Offering technical advice on software architecture and technology choices.
• Providing guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identifying and fixing faults.
• Providing technical assurance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Programming in modern languages such as server-side JavaScript
• Front end web development using HTML, CSS & JavaScript

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

ROLE TYPES AND SALARY DETAILS

There are a number of roles available:
3 x Senior Executive Officer – Permanent
2 x Senior Executive Officer –1x Fixed Term Contract 2 years, 1x Fixed Term Contract 1 year

A typical week in this role will consist of a blend of responsibilities, including:

• Performing code review.
• Providing mentoring and coaching to other team members.
• Prioritising work in line with deliverables and project goals.
• Writing code.
• Writing unit tests.
• Offering technical advice on software architecture and technology choices.
• Providing guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identifying and fixing faults.
• Providing technical assurance